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In pictures: World reacts to Biden-Harris win after tense wait

by Press Association
November 8 2020, 5.30pm Updated: November 8 2020, 5.40pm
A screen in Shinjuku shopping district in Tokyo shows a broadcast of president-elect Joe Biden speaking on Sunday (Kiichiro Sato/AP)
A screen in Shinjuku shopping district in Tokyo shows a broadcast of president-elect Joe Biden speaking on Sunday (Kiichiro Sato/AP)

The announcement that Joe Biden had won the US presidential election on Saturday produced a burst of excitement around the world.

The election was followed closely beyond the US and the final decision made front page headlines globally.

Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
Marianne Hoenow from Connecticut in the US waves an American flag outside Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate after news of Mr Biden’s win (Markus Schreiber/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
Catherine Hallahan waits for the celebrations to start in Ballina, in the North West of Ireland, the ancestral home of the president-elect (Peter Morrison/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
A passer-by takes a selfie with a newspaper reporting on Mr Biden’s victory in Tokyo (Eugene Hoshiko/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
A man holds a placard of Kamala Harris during celebrations for her victory in Painganadu, near Thulasendrapuram, the hometown of Ms Harris’s maternal grandfather in India (Aijaz Rahi/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
A man wearing a face mask crosses a road in Pamplona, northern Spain, carrying a newspaper reporting on Mr Biden’s election win (Alvaro Barrientos/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
A recruiting company in Croatia puts up billboards in Zagreb with the slogan Got Fired? and a picture of Mr Trump with a box in his hand labelled Oval Office stuff (Darko Bandic/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
A man reads a newspaper reacting to the news of Mr Biden’s victory in Lagos, Nigeria (Sunday Alamba/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
A man reads newspaper headlines on a street in Harare in Zimbabwe (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
TV screens show Mr Biden during a news programme at Yongsan Electronic store in Seoul, South Korea (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
Election 2020 Global Reaction Photo Gallery
Vendor Angelo Gallicchio shows newspapers reporting Mr Biden’s win in his kiosk in central Rome (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
Election 2020 China Reax
A man carries food past photos of Mr Biden on display at a Beijing restaurant the president-elect visited as vice president in 2011 (Andy Wong/AP)